#successors

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#bullets #peaceful #rightful #successors

I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors! ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#former #heard #i #i think #leaders

Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#predecessors #shoes #speak #successors #their

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#died #forward #god #leaders #only

Upon this the Hungarian ministers resigned, but the names submitted by the president of the council, at the demand of the king, were not approved of for successors. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#council #demand #hungarian #king #ministers

I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information. ↗

— Jean Moulin

#determined #disappear #familiarize #had #hold

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#been #discovers #doubtless #his #nature

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe. ↗

— Simone Weil

#civilized #destroy #enslave #europe #european

We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#because #cannot #diligently #gather #grain